Shutter bower and fastener



(No Model.)

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHU'TTER `BOWER AND FASTENZER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 287,816, dated november e, 1888.

Application filed September 11, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES V. FORT, a citi# zen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for ,Securing Window-Shutters, of which the following is a specification.

rIhe object of my invention is'to furnish a device for securing window-shutters which cannot be opened from the outside of the window, and which will form a perfect device for bowing the shutters and securing them` when shut.

-I passes.

-The pins In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, Figurel represents a window-shutter with my invention used as Va bolt; Fig. 2, the invention when used to bow the shutters; Figs. 3, 4, and 5, views of different styles of the invention; Figs. 6, 7, 8, 910, 11, V12, and 13, top and side views of the pins for securing my invention; and Fig. 14, a top view of my invention when opened to bow the shutters.

A B are two pieces of` metal secured together by a pivot or other suitable means. C is a slot through which the shank a of the pin D D are teeth upon the upper side of this slot, which grasp the shank a of the pin I. E is a hole through which vthe head of the pin I can pass when it is desired to remove the invention from Ythe shutter. F is a square or rectangular recess opening into E, which may grasp the shanka of the pin I and act as a wrench in screwing said pin I up.' G

and I-I represent the window-shutters, while K represents the plate on the bottom of I.

The pins I may be of several forms, and are attached to the shutters at suitable distances from the edges, as vshown vin Figs. 1` and 2. shown in Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9 consist of a rectangular shank, a, having a head, b, and base-plate K, and are secured to the shutters by screws. ranged that when the fastening A B is in place their heads will be covered by said fastening, so as to prevent their removal while said fast- These screws should be so arening is in place. The pins shown in Figs. and 13 consist of a head, b, shank a, plate K, (which may be part of the pin, or separate from it,) and screw N. These pins are simply screwed into the shutter.

In attaching my invention to the shutters, if the heads of the pins are both small enough to pass through the opening E, the pins are ,first and permanently secured to the shutters,

the head of one is passed through theopening E, `and the fastening over until the other pin can be passed through E audits shank'ct is in the slot C. If one. head is too large to pass through E, this pin is first put through the slot C and the pin is screwed into the shutter. The rectangular slot F maybe used as a wrench to screw the pins up. If it is desired to use the fastening as a bolt to hold the shutters securely together, the pins are grasped by the teeth of one part of the fastening, as A, Fig. 1. If it is desired to bow the shutters, the fastening is placed as shown in Fig. 2-that is, one pin is grasped by the teeth of A and 6o y v the other b .those of B. The amount of openl ing that can be given to the shutters depends upon the length of Aand B, and this opening can be regulated 'at will by placing the pins between different teeth.

The fastening. shown in Fig.4prepresents one constructed ofwire.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- I. The herein-described device for bowing and fastening window-shutters, consisting of the metal pieces'A B, pivoted `or otherwise suitably secured together, and furnished with a slot, C, teeth D, and opening E, in combination with the pins I, the whole arranged and operating substantially as setforth.

2. The herein-described device for bowing and fastening window shutters, consisting of the metal pieces A B, suitably secured to,- gether, and-.having a slot,.G, teeth D, open-- ing E, and opening F, and the pins I, all sub stantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JAMES V. FORT.

Witnesses: r

Oris EGAN, y GHAs. A. BUTTER. 

